Nicholas Pointon
Call 2010 (Lincoln’s Inn)
Qualifications LLB (University of Bristol) – First-Class Honours, ranked 2nd in class of 2009, BVC (Cardiff University) – Outstanding 2009 – 2010, Pupillage St John’s Chambers, Bristol 2010 – 2011
Awards Lord Mansfield Scholar and Hardwicke Scholar of Lincoln’s Inn, Herbert Smith LLP Prize (highest marks in the second year of study at the University of Bristol, 2008), Tom Glanville Jones Prize (BVC), Runner-up in the Herbert Smith LLP Mooting Competition 2007, Semi-Finalist in the ESU Essex Court Mooting Competition 2008, Ranked 5th best individual oralist, Philip C Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition 2009
Download vCard direct to your email contacts
Areas of Practice
Nicholas has a general chancery and commercial practice. His specialisms include:
Trusts, Probate and Inheritance
- Administration of estates
- Validity and construction of wills
- Claims under the Inheritance (Provision for Family and Dependants) Act 1975
- All aspects of contentious probate
- Co-ownership and trusts of land, including proprietary estoppel claims
- Construction and variation of trusts
- Inheritance tax and estate planning
- Mediation
Real Property
- Mortgages
- Boundary disputes and easements
- Proprietary estoppel
- Alteration / rectification of the land register
- Restrictive covenants, freehold and leasehold
- All aspects of Landlord and Tenant, including possession proceedings
- Disrepair claims
- Leasehold valuation tribunal proceedings
- Professional negligence
Company and Commercial
- Company disputes (including derivative claims)
- Commercial contract disputes
- Consumer credit
- Partnership (both disputes and non-contentious matters)
- Sale of goods (including retention of title clauses)
- Supply of goods and services
- Agency / vicarious liability
- Fraudulent / negligent misrepresentation
- Guarantees
- Construction claims
- Conflict of laws (including arbitration and enforcement of judgments / awards)
Insolvency
- Corporate insolvency
- Personal bankruptcy
Intellectual property
- Copyright
- Design rights
- Trademarks
- Passing off
EU law
- Competition law
- Free movement
- Conflict of laws
Public law / human rights
- Particular experience of ECHR and HRA 1998 implications in possession proceedings
